Security forces tortured scores in a sweep against the mainly ethnic Somali population of remote north-east Kenya, a rights group said on Monday.
Pakistanis trapped by an offensive in Swat face catastrophe and authorities should lift a curfew to enable them to get out, Human Rights Watch said.
Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces battling in Sri Lanka are using thousands of trapped civilians as little more than ”cannon fodder”.
A rights watchdog urged SA’s new government on Friday to restore the country’s image by putting human rights at the centre of its foreign policy.
Human Rights Watch on Thursday called for an immediate end to the detainment and deportation of Zimbabweans in South Africa.
Donors should not resume development aid to Zimbabwe until the power-sharing government ends human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday
Eritrea is becoming a "giant prison" due to its government’s policies of mass detention, torture and prolonged military conscription, says a report.
At least 128 civilians have died and more than 700 have been injured in three days of shelling in the last remaining pocket of Tamil Tiger resistance.
At least 90 women have been raped and 180 villagers killed over the past two months in the volatile eastern DRC, a rights group said on Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands of Somalis refugees in Kenya suffer extortion and abuse by corrupt and violent police, a human rights watchdog said on Monday.
The government appealed on Friday for civilians to flee the war zone and said it would open two safe passages in the area for the exodus.
Human Rights Watch called on Thursday on the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigerss to allow civilians trapped in the war zone to flee to safety.
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/ 24 February 2009
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged Syria to abolish its repressive security court, a ”kangaroo court” whose verdicts cannot be appealed.
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/ 29 January 2009
International rights groups pressed for urgent action to save up to 250 000 civilians trapped in northern Sri Lanka.
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/ 28 January 2009
Thousands of Christian Chin who have fled to India to escape persecution by Burma’s rulers are at risk of being forced back, HRW said on Wednesday.
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/ 19 January 2009
Honore Tadri was in Faradje on Christmas Day when about 150 armed men surrounded the market square where most of the town’s residents had gathered.
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/ 18 January 2009
Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army slaughtered at least 620 people in DRC during a Christmas rampage, Human Rights Watch says.
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/ 16 January 2009
Rebels have killed 567 people and displaced 115 000 in northeast DRC’s Oriental province since September, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.
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/ 16 January 2009
Thousands have fled Sri Lanka’s northern war zone in recent days, crossing the front lines amid fierce fighting, the military said on Friday.
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/ 15 January 2009
The failure of African leaders to address Zimbabwe’s spiralling crisis has become a ”blot on the credibility” of regional peace efforts, HRW says.
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/ 11 December 2008
At least 150 civilians were massacred in a Democratic Republic of Cong town last month, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.
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/ 11 December 2008
Rights groups on Wednesday denounced President Robert Mugabe over a wave of abductions of activists.
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/ 8 December 2008
Somalia is a shattered nation and the most dangerous place on earth for aid workers, a US-based human rights group said on Monday.
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/ 5 December 2008
Zimbabwe’s cholera crisis is likely to spread in SA if conditions do not improve for asylum seekers pouring over the border to escape the outbreak.,
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/ 2 December 2008
Saddam Hussein’s notorious hatchet-man, Hassan al-Majid, was on Tuesday sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the 1991 Shi’ite uprising.
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/ 2 December 2008
Nigeria’s religious fault line was in the spotlight on Tuesday after riots in the central city of Jos claimed hundreds of lives.
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/ 1 December 2008
Unexploded cluster bombs scattered across Laos have left thousands of injured breadwinners helpless since the Vietnam War ended in 1975.
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/ 26 November 2008
The government of the DRC on Wednesday rejected a report by Human Rights Watch alleging it killed at least 500 suspected political opponents.
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/ 25 November 2008
The government of the DRC has killed ”at least 500” suspected political opponents in the last two years, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
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/ 24 November 2008
Civilians on both sides of the frontlines in eastern DRC are being killed, raped and abducted, human rights campaigners said on Monday.
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/ 13 October 2008
Human Rights Watch urged Ethiopian lawmakers on Monday to reject legislation it says would slap major government restrictions on foreign aid groups.
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/ 30 September 2008
At least 10 victims of a secret ”rendition” programme in the Horn of Africa remain in Ethiopian jails and the whereabouts of others is unknown.